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?I just see it in my head, and I have to get it on canvas quickly, or I lose it. ?
Alice Moseley, Bay St. Louis artist
One painting in Alice Moseley?s home is a self portrait of Moseley and her house. It is aptly titled ?The House is Blue but the Old Lady Ain
Alice?s
Wonderland
Moseley brings Southern life to canvas
By JEAN PRESCOTT
THE SUN HERALD
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I knew as soon as I saw this place. We were crossing the bridge,? said Alice Moseley,
?and I told Tim (her son William I^attimer Moseley, a clinical psychologist now living in Pass Christian), ?Well, this is it. I know I?ve arrived.?
?He looked at me and said, ?Mama, we haven?t even gotten there yet,? but I just knew,? she said.
That was back in 1988, and the woman who would become the Grandma Moses of the Mississippi Coast was approaching the Bay from the east to keep a ?date? with gallery owner Jerry Dixon.
?We had received invitations to all of these
Alice Moseley?s approach to conversation is just as fascinating as her approach to painting. The Sun Herald has picked some of its favorite Alice-isms for readers to enjoy; see them below and on H-6.
they meet
exhibits, five, I think,? she recalled. ?We couldn?t do them all, and I told Tim to just pick one. Well, he picked Jerry?s, and that?s how I happened to come here.?
Miss Alice, as she?s known by practically everyone, believes Bay SL Ixrnis was her destiny, and the spot where she set down roots ? on Bookter Street in a part of town older than Old Town ? looks as if it?s been there forever. The blue cottage is surrounded by a garden run riot Folk art on the porch welcomes visitors who, before Miss Alice, may catch a glimpse of
Please see Mosely, H-6
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